‘Suffs’ Off Broadway Review: Shaina Taub Pulls a Lin-Manuel Miranda With Tour-de-Force Suffragette Musical
This history reads like pretty dry stuff, but right from that beginning chorus, “Suffs” is anything but. This sung-through musical is rousing entertainment for all of its nearly “three hours straight,” and much of the delight comes from seeing how Taub manipulates the material to make it fun.
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Shaina Taub has spent eight years researching and condensing the adventures of women’s rights activist Alice Paul and her cronies into a manageable tale. Despite the comparatively concise final product, at nearly three hours in runtime, Suffs (shorthand for women who fought to win the right to vote) still feels too long to absorb in […]
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In ‘Take Me Out’ White Agency and Ableism Have a Ball
Imagine a world where a superstar baseball player on par with Derek Jeter decides to disclose that he is gay. In 2003, Richard Greenberg did precisely that with Take Me Out and received the Tony Award for Best Play for his regressive efforts. Almost two decades later, his ableist and gay-caricature-laden affair has returned to […]
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